Shira Tarrant: Men & Feminism

Shira Tarrant is an expert in gender politics, feminism, pop culture, and masculinity. She is the author of When Sex Became Gender (Routledge) and Men and Feminism (Seal Press), editor of the provocative anthology Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (Routledge), and co-editor of Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style (SUNY Press, forthcoming). Shira Tarrant is currently at work on Pop Culture Propoganda and the feisty anthology, Pleasure and Peril: Questions About Sex From the Bed and Beyond.

Her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Bitch Magazine, BUST Magazine, off our backs, Huffington Post, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Genre magazine, The Journal of Intercultural Studies, The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism (Greenwood Press) and Fix Me Up: Essays on Television Dating and Makeover Shows (McFarland).

Shira Tarrant writes for the Ms. Magazine Blog and she is the column editor for “The Man Files” at the popular blog Girl With Pen. She is a frequent invited speaker at college campuses and other public venues. An authority on contemporary gender issues, Tarrant has been quoted widely in print, television, radio and online media.

Shira Tarrant grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and lives in Los Angeles. She teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. She has a PhD in political science from UCLA and fond memories of lounging on the grass in the campus sculpture garden.